Autumn Dreamin

It was a strike, he would have been out even with a challenge

Ant might have scored there if the ball didn't bounce right back to the plate

I'll take it

Bring him home boys

Midseason stateside promotions are incredibly rare, and when they do happen it's usually someone in their second DSL season already. Visa processing makes it complicated, in addition to some tax rule I think?

Grichuk leads the league in PH HRs with 3 Sox have hit 12.7% of all PH HRs in MLB this season

Grichuk is just automatic lol, what a weapon off the bench

Upon review, the runner was wearing a Sox jersey.

The Sox even cover ump hot/cold zones in their game prep, they look more for challenges in certain spots based on ump tendencies.

He's one of those guys who regularly looks a little uncomfortable out there even when pitching well.

One interesting thing to keep an eye on with Teel other than his will be his bat speed. Vargas' flashed his big bat speed increase in ST and it successfully carried over to the regular season. Teel recorded some of the best bat speed on the team in ST (after being among the slowest last season), so I'm curious to see if his gains stick too. Not sure how/if they could have been affected by his injuries though.

Their June "starter" splits will be messy because of how much they've used openers these past couple weeks. For example, that 7.88 ERA will include Eisert getting lit up for an inning, but not Burke shutting down the Yanks for 7+. Martin, Kay, Fedde, Burke are at a combined 5.32 this month which is higher than you want but not ridiculous given the competition. The offense felt like more of an issue than the rotation in Detroit, even the bullpen game was winnable if they could hit with RISP on the road.

Same draft year as Colson, much different outcome. Strengthens the Sox' Montgomery monopoly though.

He's looked mostly fine to me, though I haven't watched WS as closely lately. Nothing wildly impressive, but also nothing that screams an imminent move. Scouting reports had him as athletic enough to potentially play OF, and I've seen him look okay in LF in a couple games where he didn't face many tough chances. He did hit another 2 HR today and leads the SAL in SLG, so hopefully the bat plays either way.

I think you misunderstood my point? People can use or ignore whatever stats they want, I was only complaining about inconsistency. For example, if someone previously used FIP to support Grant Taylor being great but unlucky, then it would be inconsistent for them to later call a different low FIP pitcher terrible garbage for getting similarly BABIP'd. I didn't cite Acuna's June OPS here while previously disregarding the relevance of recent performance for a different player elsewhere... I just pointed out that he's been good in June, to the point where his OPS leads the team in this stretch. His season stats being bad don't change that, though I never said they didn't count. If anything, they make it easier for the hot hitting to go unnoticed, which is why I thought it was relevant context. I assumed most people wouldn't guess he's been the hottest Sox in June. But I didn't use it to make to any larger case for or against anything, so I'm not sure what "narrative" you're reading into it. My apologies that it came across to you as too snarky though. (And to address your second question anyway...Most surface batting stats don't start to stabilize until a 200+ PA sample, so statistically his first 100 ABs actually aren't particularly likely to be any more predictive. Similar is true for pitchers and rate stats. Everything "counts" but without enough sample size meaning can be limited.)

Cags on a heater that hopefully ends before he comes to town.

His 1.023 OPS in June leads the team. So however bad you think they've been at the plate lately, literally everyone else has been worse than Acuna.

Utilize whatever metrics you want, just don't cite them ONLY when they confirm your priors. Not necessarily directed at you specifically, but it's a pet peeve of mine here generally. A lot of people here only mention expected/projected stats when they match their previous perceptions and then suddenly don't care about them otherwise.

Whenever he's back (hopefully tomorrow), Teel will require a 40 man move to be activated from the 60 day. Think it's at 39 now, so he'd get the last spot. A Romo option would be the most likely 26 move, unless Quero gets a 10 day trip to rest whatever is nagging him. Hopefully tomorrow comes with timeline updates for Mune.

Ugly game. Ugly series. Unfortunately not their first let down road trip after a big homestand. Hope Teel can spark something if he's back tomorrow. Win 5 against the Guards over this next stretch and all is forgiven.

Taylor gave up a HR (almost 2) and a walk. I wouldn't have been mad if they tried it, but I'm not sure he was a sure bet for a clean 9th either. Just sucks that Jones was fast enough to beat out the IF single.

If he goes 2, he's likely down until Wednesday. Now they can use him early in the Cleveland series if needed.

Considering who was up, the 8th was the higher leverage spot.